{"id":159147,"date":"2023-02-27T17:29:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T23:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/we-finally-know-why-saturn-moon-shoots-silica-into-space"},"modified":"2023-02-27T17:29:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T23:29:17","slug":"we-finally-know-why-saturn-moon-shoots-silica-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/we-finally-know-why-saturn-moon-shoots-silica-into-space","title":{"rendered":"We finally know why Saturn moon shoots silica into space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-finally-know-why-saturn-moon-shoots-silica-into-space3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnceladus is giving us free samples of what\u2019s hidden deep below.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saturn\u2019s icy moon Enceladus shoots particles of frozen silica into space, and scientists might finally know why. Scientists have long known that Enceladus spewed out icy silica that eventually made its way into Saturn\u2019s E ring, but they didn\u2019t have a good explanation as to why this was happening.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new study by a team at the University of California Los Angeles might provide the answer. Their research shows that tidal heating in Encealadus\u2019 rocky core creates currents that push the silica to the surface. Once there, it\u2019s likely released into space by deep-sea hydrothermal vents.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA \/ jpl-caltech \/ space science institute.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long known that Enceladus spewed out icy silica that eventually made its way into Saturn\u2019s E ring, but they didn\u2019t have a good explanation as to why this was happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEnceladus is giving us free samples of what\u2019s hidden deep below.\u201d Saturn\u2019s icy moon Enceladus shoots particles of frozen silica into space, and scientists might finally know why. Scientists have long known that Enceladus spewed out icy silica that eventually made its way into Saturn\u2019s E ring, but they didn\u2019t have a good explanation as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}